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Lok Sabha elections phase 5: Uttar Pradesh sees 45% polling till 3 pm

Maximum 50.32 percent voting was witnessed in Sitapur, while Lucknow recorded 43.07 per cent voting

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Union Minister and BJP candidate from Lucknow, Rajnath Singh, and his wife Savitri Singh show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote at a polling station during the fifth phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, in Lucknow, Monday | Photo: PTI

She also tagged a video in which an elderly women is seen alleging that her hand was forcibly put on 'panja' (hand), election symbol of the Congress, though she wanted to vote for the 'kamal' (lotus), the BJP's symbol.

In Amethi and Rae Bareli, the SP-BSP alliance has not put up any candidate, leaving the two constituencies for the Congress.

The Union Home Minister is seeking re-election from Lucknow, while his colleague at the Centre Irani is again taking on Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.

In the Faizabad parliamentary constituency, under which the temple town of Ayodhya falls, sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh is taking on Nirmal Khatri of the Congress. Khatri is a former Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief.

Former Union minister and Congress candidate Jitin Prasad is contesting from Dhaurahra against former Chambal brigand Malkhan Singh.

In Lucknow, the SP has pitted Poonam Sinha, wife of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, as the joint 'mahagathbandhan' candidate against Rajnath Singh.